411 Senator
Evans: To ask the Minister for Defence—With reference to all
forms of end product report by the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD
reports) which summarise raw intelligence product:

(1) Which
ministers received any of the DSD reports that were found by the Inspector-General
to be in breach of the Rules on Sigint and Australian Persons.

(2) On
what precise dates did this occur.

(3) Which
minister’s offices, that is personal staff members or departmental
liaison officers, received the DSD reports that were in breach of the
Rules on Sigint and Australian Persons .

(4) On
what precise dates did this occur.

(5) Did
any departments receive any of the DSD reports that were in breach of
the Rules on Sigint and Australian Persons; if so, which ones and on
what dates.

(6) For
both (1) and (3), were all four DSD reports that the Inspector-General
found breached the rules received by any minister or minister’s office;
if not, how many of the four reports were received by each of the ministers
and/or minister’s office.

(7) Of
those reports that were made in breach of the rules and were received
by a minister and/or minister’s office, did they include either of
the two reports containing intelligence information on communications
by an Australian lawyer with a foreign client.

(In
this question, the phrase ‘DSD reports’ refers to all forms of end
product by the DSD which summarise raw intelligence product. Such
reports are variously refered to in the summary of the Inspector-General
for Security and Intelligence’s MV Tampa investigation as ‘reports summarising the results of
collection activity’, ‘end product reports’ and ‘situation updates’.)